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The Royals were formed in Detroit in 1950 by singers Henry Booth, Charles Sutton, Lawson Smith, and Sonny Woods. Led by Sutton’s clean tenor, the group (with periodic vocal help from guitarist and arranger Alonzo Tucker) also apparently presented Levi Stubbs (later on from the Four Tops) and Jackie Wilson …

Danny Ruler was a Birmingham-based vocalist whose initial solo single in EMI-Columbia was “Tossin’ And Turnin’ b/w “Teen Bloodstream.” In 1965, he surfaced briefly as head of the Birmingham group known as Danny King’s Mayfair Occur 1965. Upcoming Move associates Roy Hardwood and Trevor Burton performed on King’s second one, …

Vocalist, songwriter, and maker Roy Cousins offers still left an indelible tag around the reggae picture. Given birth to in 1949 (by his personal reckoning, but 1945 relating to additional resources) in Cockburn Pencil, Jamaica, Cousins was just 13 when he created his 1st vocal group. The next year he …

Jamaican vocal group the Royals were founded in 1964 by singer and writer Roy Cousins, and the initial lineup contains Cousins, Errol Wilson, Keith Smith, and Berthram Johnson, even though Royals were completely Cousins’ baby, and he remains the only real constant through the entire group’s history. Their personal song, …